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This essay aims to investigate the lost ‘Uomini Illustri’ cycles in Napoli, Milano and Padova, traditionally linked to Giotto, Petrarch and to the ‘Proto-Humanistic’ culture. The author offers some research ideas and hypothesis on the... more
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      GiottoPadovaFrancesco PetrarcaCarraresi
Nelle visioni dei Trionfi sei entità emblematiche - Amore, Castità, Morte, Fama, Tempo ed Eternità - vincono progressivamente l'una sull'altra e la vicenda del poeta assurge a paradigma universale, a specchio della stessa condizione... more
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      Dante AlighieriFrancesco PetrarcaTrionfi
Florence in the Time of the Medici. Public Celebrations, Politics, and Literature in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Translated and Edited by Nicole Carew-Reid, Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008, pp. 17-... more
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      Theatre StudiesComedyGirolamo SavonarolaCarnival
The cult of the past is a very common topos not only in the humanistic Quattrocento but also in the Middle Ages, and it represents a strong propaganda tool in profane art associated with astronomical and moralistic allegories, frequent in... more
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      Visual propagandaPredicationChristine de PizanAngevins
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      Renaissance FlorenceGiovanni BoccaccioFrancesco PetrarcaCassone Painting
Masaccio’s famous fresco in Santa Maria Novella consists of two parts; the upper zone focuses on the three persons of the Trinity and the lower depicts a fictive tomb and a skeleton. The words uttered by the skeleton (“I was once what you... more
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      PetrarchMemento MoriMasaccioTrionfi
Il volume, articolato in 52 saggi e una premessa, è stato ideato dal curatore come un organico percorso originale di lunga durata all’insegna della Storia dello spettacolo: dal mondo antico sino ai giorni nostri, teatro e arte, musica e... more
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      ShakespeareMolièreCommedia dell'arteCarlo Goldoni
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      PetrarcaTriumphiTriumph of DeathDante Reception
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      PetrarchCanciónTrionfiRocabertí
At the beginning of the 16th century, under the rule of Louis XII and Francis I, Petrarch’s "Triumphi" were translated into French no less than five times. Even if this fact and the translations themselves have been studied separatedly,... more
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      Translation StudiesRenaissance StudiesPetrarch StudiesPetrarch
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      Italian Renaissance ArtErosFirenzeCassoni
Dans une perspective d'interprétation de la politique culturelle de Laurent le Magnifique, cet ouvrage explore divers aspects des festivités florentines de la seconde moitié du XVe siècle.
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      Theatre StudiesMedieval HistoryComedyRenaissance Studies
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      Italian Renaissance ArtRaphaelRaffaelloJacopo Sansovino
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      PetrarchPetrarchismPetrarcaFrancesco Petrarca
Il saggio, in lingua ispanica, verte sulla traduzione spagnola in versi dei "Trionfi" di Francesco Petrarca di Antonio Obregon, editi da Arnao Guillén de Brocar a Logroño nel 1512. L'A. rileva che la traduzione dell'opera trecentesca si... more
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      Renaissance HumanismPetrarchPrinting HistoryPetrarchism